Texture/Pressure

I took the word texture pretty literal. For this project I made a clay box. To apply the texture/pressure element to this piece I added little squares all over the box. On each small square I did a different design. The thing is I used another item to apply pressure on the clay to make the designs. Such a pennies forks clay tools little household items. In the beginning I was going to do a lot less squares on the box but once I got that amount on I did not like it and ripped them off then added more. I did choose to paint it, which is taking a while as you can see above. My favorite part of the piece is actually the size. I love how its so big it makes a statement especially because of the popping colors. If I could do anything differently I would probably go ahead and glaze it to speed up the process and make it much more simple.

Repetition

I took repetition a little bit differently than most did. I made a set of things that would go together. Three different shapes and colors. But all compliment each other. I started with the idea of doing a set of clay vessel type items. I sketched out the general shape of the pieces I wanted to include in this set. As i went things changed and improved. On the sphere I originally had a handle but playing around with different shapes I realized that a ball handle would fit the piece better. The box I wanted to do something more with. So i cut a square in the top and filled it with glass so that when it went though the glaze kiln it melted and now it is all different colors of swirled glass. I really like the choice of shape and color with this set of items I think they went together really nicely. If I did this project again I would have done a better job connecting the two pinch pots I used to make the sphere because there is a pretty major crack in the back.

land Art

Land art is art that is part of nature, usually not anything functional or permanent. For my project I decided to pick out a few random sticks, sand them, paint them with designs, then randomly place them back into the woods as if nature is giving us a pop of color. Something I would do is I would do a lot more because I really liked how they turned out.

Marble Drop

For my marble drop project I worked with Lauren. Our theme was boys vs. Girls the top was the boyish half and the bottom was the girly half, which we enjoyed much more! At the start of this project we had a guy in our group and since we all had VERY separate ideas so we decided to break it down the middle and compromise.He ended up splitting from our group but we decided it was still a cute idea and that we wanted to go with it. The most difficult thing about this project was the unknown problems that would pop up. You have to constantly test to see if the marble is going to cooperate with you or it its going to decide to fly out of the marble drop half way through, definitely a challenge. Our project has a variety of different tracks it starts in a metal coil tube goes down cardboard tubes through the crown down the shoes across the ramps and ends up in the bottom platform, we created all the tracks. If I could change anything about this piece I would just add more detail and features I would also make it so that the marble travels the entire thing slower it goes a little fast. I'm most proud of the overall look of the piece I think  it turned out great.